NIU announced Friday the hiring of former Baltimore Ravens running backs coach Thomas Hammock to be the 23rd head coach in program history. The 37-year-old graduated from NIU in 2002 with a Bachelor’s degree in marketing.
Hammock’s hiring is following former head coach Rod Carey’s departure to coach Temple University. He was introduced at a press conference Friday morning at the Yorden Center.
“This has always been my dream,” Hammock said in his remarks Friday. “When I was a graduate assistant at Wisconsin, I said ‘I want to be the head football coach at Northern Illinois University.